Jawbone UP API Discovery
November 28, 2011 – 9:42 am | 4 Comments

On Saturday I stopped by the Apple store and picked up an UP device by Jawbone. The UP is a wristband and iPhone app that will track your fitness and sleep activity and help encourage you to live a more active life style. As with most of my Quantified Self gadets (Fitbit, Zeo, Withings, Neurosky, etc.) my first reaction was to “free my data”. Similar to my initial journey with the Fitbit, I was inspired to find an “unofficial” way to get access to the data.

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Philosophy

Increasing number of articles dealing with philosophy and psychology. Topics include Integral philosophy, consciousness, and age old advice on how to live “the good life”.

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Knowledge Management

My latest discoveries on personal knowledge management. Discover what PKM is all about, learn about the Semantic Web, and find out how to use Wikis to help track all of your important information.

Quantified Self

Quantified Self is a collaboration of users and tool makers who share an interest in self knowledge through self-tracking. There are number of posts on my device “hacking”, open source development, and my own quantified experiments.

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The Undiscovered Self
September 3, 2007 – 10:14 am | No Comment

Jung on the state and religion:
“All mass movements, as one might expect, slip with the greatest ease down an inclined plane made up of large numbers.  Where the many are, there is security; what the …

The Conjunction
September 2, 2007 – 6:04 pm | No Comment

“In the beginning God created one world (unus mundus).  This he divided into two – heaven and earth.  Beneath this spiritual and corporeal binarius lieth hid a third thing, which is the bond of holy …

Potentialities: Borne Along the Stream of Time
August 19, 2007 – 9:48 pm | No Comment

Jung’s commentary on The Golden Flower:
“Now and then it happened in my practice that a patient grew beyond himself because of unknown potentialities, and this became an experience of prime importance to me.  In the …

Nature, Personality and Actualization
August 16, 2007 – 11:54 pm | No Comment

More Jungian wisdom:
“To the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being and does not rise to personality, he has failed to realize his life’s meaning.  Fortunately, in her kindness and …

Hack Your Brain: Make Your Own Mind Machine
June 6, 2007 – 10:51 pm | No Comment

Make Magazine recently featured on article on how to create your own mind machine.
“This weekend, learn how to hack your brain by making Mitch Altman’s Brain Machine! It flashes LEDs into your eyes and beeps …

Interview with Steve Pavlina
May 5, 2007 – 11:29 pm | No Comment

C4Chaos (Coolmel) recently posted a great series of articles featuring an interview with Steve Pavlina.  I’m a big fan of Steve, and have a great affinity for Integral Philosophy as well.  I thoroughly enjoyed the …

What, in your view, makes life meaningful?
April 9, 2007 – 10:12 pm | No Comment

What makes life meaningful?  The basic ability to even ask this question… an inquisitive mind, and the honesty to realize that with each question comes another question.
Quality life = Quality questions (not answers)

The Role of Alpha and Consciousness
April 8, 2007 – 10:43 pm | No Comment

I just caught an interesting post on Mind Update (a side blog for the Transparent Corporation) titled:

Brain Rhythms and Consciousness, and how Alpha may play a new role
The article discusses how certain brainwave frequencies, …